Purpose

The purpose of the Mars Society is to further the exploration and settlement of the Red Planet.

We will accomplish this through:

Public outreach fostering Mars pioneers

Worldwide support for government-funded Mars research and exploration

Private-enterprise Mars exploration and settlement

Starting small, with hitchhiker payloads on government-funded missions, we intend to use the credibility such activities engenders to mobilize larger resources, further enabling private robotic missions and ultimately human exploration and settlement of Mars.